Did we mention mobile last year? I can’t tell you how many thousands of mentions we made and continue to make. Still – only 25% of companies have a mobile strategy… ouch. Text messaging, mobile web, mobile applications and mobile email are standard for every marketing strategy. If you’re not up to speed, you’re losing a large portion of the audience that needs your product or service.

The numbers are startling – the majority of companies admit to not having a mobile strategy, and my guess is that those who think that they have a mobile strategy are misinformed. They think that simply having an app or a mobile-friendly website suffices for a strategy. Fortunately brands are starting to get wise with things like responsive design and HTML5 web apps vs. native apps, and marketers are allocating more and more budget to mobile advertising. Neil Bhapkar, Uberflip VP of Marketing.

"Unlike students in small online courses or unaffiliated students in MOOCS, distributed flip students might not use community features. If MOOCs for blended learning are tofully realize the potential of online communities, we mustinvestigate alternative forms of community that are moreloosely coupled to content sequence and more distributed in terms of power."

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This article is filled with some good food for thought. It is interesting to read about the concept of "Working out Loud", a trend that has developed as a result of the connectivism of social networking. It is also interesting to read about new trends in learning. Lots of good food for thought.

Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal of learning, teaching, and technology that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education.

"The difficulties of cross-cultural education were noted about twenty years ago, when tertiary education was rapidly expanding in Hong Kong and saw the arrival of western professors. Flowerdew and Miller’s (1995) pioneering study talks about four cultural dimensions that affect ESL (English as a second language) students:

Ethnic culture: the cultural features that affect the behavior of students and lecturers (e.g., respect towards teachers).

Local culture: the local setting that is familiar to a student but may not be so for the person teaching the course, or vice versa (e.g., using a local TV show or movie to explain an academic concept).

Academic culture: The values, assumptions and roles in the classroom (e.g., what is expected of a student in terms of classroom participation).

Disciplinary culture: the specialized vocabulary of a particular discipline (e.g., jargon specific to linguists or engineers, for which there is sometimes no term in Chinese and therefore an English term is used)."

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